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					Pojo's VS System Card of the Day 
							
								
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									 |  | Star of the Show – X-Statix
 
                            Marvel Knights
 Date Reviewed: 03.18.05
 
 Constructed Average Rating: 4.25
 Limited Average Rating: 1.75
 
 
 Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
 1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
 5 is the highest rating.
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								|  Nakaiya21
 | Star of the 
								Show 
 Rounding out the week we have a card that almost 
								single-handedly makes the X-Statixs’ playable. 
								Against Golden Age decks this makes the vastly 
								abused card Overload useless for you opponent. 
								In a Modern Age match those pesky Marvel Knights 
								their War Wagon becomes little more than a 
								crutch for their Blade. This will stop pretty 
								much the effect from any card that uses the word 
								“target” somewhere in its effect. Note that no 
								where in Puppet Masters effect does the word 
								“target” appear ::grrrr::.
 
 The discarding part of the cost for activating 
								this should be of little problem. Since you’re 
								recruiting very few characters you should 
								usually have a hand full of useless guys that 
								you are more than willing to toss away.
 
 X-Statix Constructed – 5/5 A must have in every 
								One Man Show style deck.
 
 Limited – 1/1 Not likely to be much of a help at 
								all.
 
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								|  Johnny Blaze
 | Star of the 
								Show – X-Statix is all about showing off your 
								own unique power so Star of the Show exactly 
								benefits selfishness. With a discard of an X-Statix 
								character, which your current Star will 
								definitely like and as long as you control 
								exactly one character, Star of the Show provides 
								your Star immunity from effects your opponent 
								controls. Notice that Star of the Show does not 
								specify that the one character that you control 
								must be an X-Statix character so think up of 
								possibilities of Team-up with this card. 
 Constructed: 3/5 – I can see this card played 2 
								different ways. One is to abuse it and create an 
								X-Statix deck that relies on your Star Power of 
								one being able to be immune to your opponent’s 
								effects. The 2nd way is to use it as a tech card 
								and when your opponent clears your board via 
								Titans or some other way, play Star of the Show 
								at your next recruit step and stop those Titans 
								trick short next time.
 
 Limited: 2/5 – This card can be more situational 
								in Limited if your opponent doesn’t have many 
								effects available to use. More than likely 
								though they will. But do you really want to have 
								only 1 character out in Limited at any one time?
 
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								| Jason Bunch
 | Star of the 
								Show 
 This card makes mono-Statix possible. Your 
								opponent will have all these great "KO target 
								stunned character" effects ready to go, and they 
								will be totally useless against your lone 
								character. With no Have a Blast or Foiled in 
								this format, you won't have to worry so much 
								about Star of the Show getting destroyed. Star 
								of the Show manages to keep your guy on the 
								field, and shuts down a lot of your opponent's 
								deck, which can only be good for you. In Golden 
								Age, this card will save you from Overload, 
								which is the main card to watch out for these 
								days. It also shuts down X-Stall's early game, 
								and takes away Roy Harper's arsenal (bad 
								pun!!!).
 
 In Limited, playing one character at a time is 
								suicide. Even if you get some support cards for 
								it, there's almost no way you'll get enough 
								copies of it to stay viable, and it's better to 
								play it safe and keep your field presence nice 
								and robust.
 
 Ratings:
 
 Constructed (Modern) - 4.5/5
 Constructed (Golden) - 5/5
 Limited - 1.5/5
 
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								| Brad Pironciak | Today we're 
								reviewing one of the most valuable X-statix plot 
								twists, Star of the Show. 
 Plain and simple, this card is great. It is a 
								complete staple for X-statix and if you're 
								running the team and not using this give me your 
								address so I can come and smack you. Unlike 
								other teams, X-statix keeps their field presence 
								through one character. If your opponent manages 
								to overload your one character, say hello to a 
								ton of breakthrough, and most likely a loss.
 
 But wait, star of the show stops all that 
								nonsence, because your opponent can't even 
								target your lone wolf. Mystical paralysis? Gone.
 Overload? Gone.
 
 In limited there arent many targeted plot twists 
								to worry about, but this card is still good to 
								pick up if you're running X-statix heavy.
 
 X statix constructed: 4.5/5
 Limited: 3/5
 Art: 5/5 (Hilarious)
 
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